Today, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, is on a country visit to Washington DC and New York City, in the United States. She will discuss common efforts in combating disinformation and foreign interference and ensuring transparency and trust in election processes, as well as EU-US cooperation on a number of justice matters. She will discuss ways to enhance cooperation with the US, especially when it comes to monitoring and analysis of the digital information space and support for independent media.
The Vice-President will meet US Attorney General, Merrick Garland, with whom she will discuss the use of frozen and immobilised Russian assets, e-evidence and data flows, among other issues.
The Vice-President will also meet with the US Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Elizabeth Allen and the US Special Envoy and Coordinator for the US Global Engagement Center, James Rubin, to exchange on disinformation and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.
Furthermore, Vice-President Jourová will meet with representatives of the think tank Endowment for Democracy, with whom she will discuss ways to support to independent media and human rights defenders. The Vice-President will equally meet with representatives of the World Bank and participate in an event at the Atlantic Council on information integrity and media freedom in the framework of elections.
The Vice-President will then travel to New York City, where she will give a speech at an event organised by the World Jewish Congress. On Thursday, she will also meet with the US Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, Dara Lindenbaum, to discuss electoral integrity, protection of electoral infrastructure and foreign interference. To conclude the visit, Vice-President Jourová will meet with the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Global Communications, Melissa Fleming, to discuss online platforms, disinformation, hate speech, electoral integrity and media business models.